First Day of School!

I just wanted to let you all know that I started school today! Some of my friends are going to go to preschool this year so I get to go, too--but mine will be at home with Bo, and the Peep, and my frog, and lots of other friends.

We have a calendar we've been keeping up with every day, and I'm learning a song about all the months that I'm getting pretty good at!

We also have a chain for how many days until baby brother comes. Mom thinks it is way too long, but I'm sure it will come really quick. :)

Also, here is a really cute picture of me and my friend Addie the day we went swimming in my backyard.

Random thoughts that don't fit under a good title name

Hey Zach, have you succumbed to Harry Potter 7 yet? It would be fun to have a little blog discussion, but of course I don't want to give anything away until we've all read it.
So I told Kyle today, "you know what's crazy? Every day I think to myself,'Man, there is no way I could possibly get more uncomfortable.' And then every day I wake up, and I am more uncomfortable. And this is going to keep going on for over 60 more days..." But then, DELIVERANCE, right?
We asked Ethan tonight if we should name baby brother Tyler or Jacob, and he said Jacob. I told him to say "Ethan and Jake" to see if he liked the sound of it and he said, "Ethan and Jake...running around in the dirt." And then he lit up with a huge grin. I'm not exactly sure what he meant, but it was pretty cute. And I'm sure an image that will come true someday, whatever we choose to name this guy.

A fun once in a lifetime experience

So when we were at the Hatch family reunion, Uncle Terrance told Diane and me that his granddaughter Sharee was going to be a guest organist for one of the 12 and 2 pm organ recitals in the Tabernacle, and that he would let us know when. Diane called this morning and said it was today, so we went down to see her. (She is my cousin Robert's daughter, maybe 25, married, has a little baby, and she and her husband both got their masters degrees in Organ from U of Kansas. He had been the guest organist on Saturday) She was so poised and matter of fact, and she played really well. It was really neat to be there. To look at her, you would think, oh, what a nice, shy, little Mormon girl from Utah -- what a powerhouse!! We had fun talking afterwards, and her husband came up and asked us if we'd like him to show us the organ -- uh, yeah, so he took just Diane and me up there, and spent about 45 minutes with us answering every question we could think of, playing the lowest note, all the solo flavors and so much neat stuff, telling us about all the organs in America that are big ones, and tons of cool cool stuff. Did you know that the buttons that change the color behind the organ are literally on the organ? It was great - there are 8 colors -- amber, magenta, and some other out of the ordinary names. It's the organist that changes colors! That was funny because the colors changed during one of Sharee's pieces, and I leaned over to Diane and said, "I think she used one of those foot pedals to do that." and she actually had done it herself (but not with her feet!) Matt said that one of the neatest things about the tabernacle organ is that they really keep it maintained and in top shape, unlike lots of other big organs where with so many pipes and things to go wrong, they just can't keep it all working well, or they don't have permanent staff people (or $) to keep them up. Right then 2 men in white shirts came up from the floor underneath and he introduced us -- they are the full time organ maintenance workers that do the Temple Square/Conf center/JS Bldg organs, and they told us a bunch of neat0 stuff too. So, add that to my tour of BeeHive clothing and Press and Distribution as fun inside moments!